Beldocs Industry awards projects from Serbia, Moldova and Ukraine
- Ukrainian filmmaker Irena Stetsenko's Roses. Film - Cabaret has won two awards, while Luka Papić's The Box triumphed in the Serbian Docs in Progress section
The industry section of the Belgrade International Documentary Film Festival Beldocs (8-15 May) announced its awards at a ceremony in the Belgian Embassy on 10 May.
In the Beldocs in Progress section, for projects from the Western Balkan, Black Sea and Baltic countries (for the full list, click here), the big winner was Roses. Film - Cabaret [+see also:
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The East Silver Caravan Festival Distribution Award from the Prague-based Institute of Documentary Film went to two projects: Simon Mozgovyi's Salt from Boneville [+see also:
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film profile] (Serbia/Spain/Croatia). The latter project, about a young man who was born in Belgrade but raised in Barcelona, and his search for his identity, also received sound post-production services worth €7,500 from the Mir Media Group.
In the Beldocs Academy programme, a three-day course tutored by Francine Raveney, Kobi Shely and Milan Stojanović, the teams behind ten projects from seven Eastern European countries (for the full list, click here) learned about how to make financial, marketing and distribution plans and business strategies. The Moldovan-German project Landing, represented by producer Natalia Imaz, in which director Ksenia Ciuvaseva has intimate conversations with her father on camera, received the Best Project Award and €1,500 in cash from the Film Centre of Montenegro.
The Serbian Docs in Progress section featured five projects (for the full list, click here), and Luka Papić's The Box emerged as the winner, receiving €2,000 in cash from Film Center Serbia. The film explores one of the crucial periods in recent Serbian history, when in 1990, after 45 years of communism, political parties gained legal status. Through the unreliable and subjective memories of the protagonists, a bizarre and humorous media campaign for the 1990 election, public gatherings, and interviews with the presidential candidates and party members, the movie explores the ongoing process of democratisation and the basic nature of politics.
Another industry segment was the Documentaries for Kids & Youth Development Workshop for the development of documentary films aimed at young audiences. The teams behind six projects from Hungary, Russia, Germany, Poland and Ukraine were tutored by EDN's Ove Rishøj Jensen and IDFA's Meike Statema.
Beldocs Industry also included master classes by Kazuo Hara, Marianne Lambert and Goran Dević, as well as panels on Online Distribution and VoD for Documentaries; New Business Models for Production, Distribution and Exhibition; Opportunities in Overseas Co-production for Balkan, Black Sea and Baltic Countries; Distribution and Docu-TV Slots; and New Trends in Crossmedia Production and Sales.
Here is the full list of Beldocs Industry award winners:
Beldocs in Progress
Current Time TV Award
Roses. Film - Cabaret [+see also:
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Production company: DGTL RLGN
Living Pictures Post-production Award
Roses. Film - Cabaret - Irena Stetsenko
East Silver Caravan Festival Distribution Award
Salt from Boneville - Simon Mozgovyi (Ukraine/Georgia/Netherlands/Poland)
Production companies: Mainstream Pictures, Atlant Media Group, Stewopol, Postred Audio
Telenovela: Grey-Scale in Colour - Filip Martinović (Serbia/Spain/Croatia)
Production companies: GULU GULU presenta, Belgrade Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Cinnamon Films
Beldocs Academy
Best Project
Landing - Ksenia Ciuvaseva (Moldova/Germany)
Producer: Natalia Imaz
Serbian Docs in Progress
Best Project
The Box - Luka Papić (Serbia)
Production company: Cinnamon Films
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